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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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